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Early in the morning I still get a little bit nervous
Fighting my anxiety constantly I try to control it
Even when I know it's been forever I can still feel the spin
Hurts when I remember and I never wanna feel it again
Don't know if you get it cause I can't express how thankful I am
That you were always with me when it hurts I know that you understand
I don't wanna lose control
Nothing I can do anymore
Trying every day when I hold my breath
Spinning out in space pressing on my chest
I don't wanna lose control
Sometimes I still think it's coming but I know it's not
Trying to breathe in and then out but the air gets caught
Cause even though I'm older now and I know how to shake off the past
I wouldn't have made it if I didn't have you holding my hand
I don't wanna lose control
Nothing I can do anymore
Trying every day when I hold my breath
Spinning out in space pressing on my chest
I don't wanna lose control
I need you to know I would never be this strong without you
You've seen how I've grown you took all my doubt
Cause you were home
I don't wanna lose control
There's nothing I can do anymore
I don't wanna lose control
Nothing I can do anymore (anymore), anymore
Trying every day when I hold my breath
Spinning out in space pressing on my chest
I don't wanna lose control
This is especially for my good friend Raffaele who enjoys a good laugh and a bit of good natured banter :-)
I've been reading quite a bit about Nebraska lately. I discovered an author entirely new to me - Mari Sandoz - who wrote quite a bit about pioneering in Nebraska.
Another book recently suggested to me - The Sod-House Frontier by Everett Dick - is now on my growing pile of books I'll get to soon. From the looks of it, the book describes in detail nearly ever aspect of Nebraska pioneer life.
It does, however, leave out normal death almost completely. There's talk of frontier justice and murder, of coruse. But there are only two paragraphs on funerals.
I find this so strange. In the Victorian era, the rites of death were almost gleefully related. But by the 1880s all of that changed. Death moved from the home to funeral homes. Once that separation occured, death became foreign even though it is one thing we all have in common.
We all experience the death of friends and loved ones, we all grieve in many of the same ways, we all cry, we all remember those who have left us. And in the end, we all die. Yet, through so many of the books of and from this era that I've read, death and funerals and burials hardly receive a mention.
Writings about the funerals of the late 1800s and early 1900s that took place in populated areas in the East and the Pacific West are easy enough to find. They were the norm. But those taking place on the plains and prairies, within the cemeteries I photograph, are essentially non-existent. I have come across exactly zero among the journals, diaries, memoirs, and histories I've read. I'm sure there must be something out there though.
Though someone likely recorded this, their absense has left me with endless questions.
If the nearby town had no funeral director, who took care of the body? In regular houses, the funeral would be held in the front parlor (later called the "living room" for obvious reasons), what about small sod-houses or shacks? Who made the coffins and how on the plains where there were few, if any, trees? What happened to the bodies of Black pioneers who died among Whites (they were rarely allowed in the same cemeteries, though there were exceptions)?
More than anything, I just want someone to walk me through the process. I photograph the very end result of death: the gravesite well over a century after burial. I want to know everything prior to this as it happened to the pioneers.
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'An Ocean I See Without Bottom or Shore'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Film: Kodak Vericolor III; x-11/1997
Process: DIY ECN-2
Nebraska
July 2025
Did some long overdue birdwatching over the weekend, so will be "taking a break" from the arboretum pics before resuming again.
Spotted this male Northern Cardinal at the "Blazing Hot Blend" feeder - pepper treated seeds to deter the squirrels and seems to work, too. Mr Cardinal is looking a bit ragged but not sure if it's due to the stress from parenting or because of the extremely hot weather we've had in our area lately? Or something else completely different?
** Mind you, our hot weather is nothing like some other areas are experiencing but still - hot for our area! And no doubt the heat affects wildlife regardless of where they are located.
christmas eve turns out to be a day of deluging rain and not one but two small window-frame leaks (thanks, southerly winds) that require much attention — but wishing everyone a lovely, hopefully-less-drippy holiday!
8-22-15 MS Veendam traveling through Prince Christian Sound in Southern Greenland passing a strange looking burger bit on it's way back to Boston.
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some a bit past it, but overall so full of Spring oomph energy!
Shonen Knife - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
A bit of Birmingham from the back seat of a moving car
Quite pleased with a sort of blend of order/chaos, bright/dark and colour/black
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Taken a bit too far, for sliders sunday…
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See the first comment box below for the standard version, the original from which all arose, and a screenshot of this version's photoshop file with the expanded layers panel and channels panel.
After converting to black and white in Lr, and cropping, it was brought into Ps. I liked the version edited as usual, but then decided to see what would happen if I slud things further.
I like the overlay glow that is often created with editing for an Orton effect. The first way I learned was from Tony Kuyper's tutorials. At the top of the layer stack a curves adjustment layer set to screen blend mode is created. Then create a merged up through it layer. Set it to multiply blend mode and use gaussian blur. Group those layers and possibly add a mask to the group, and possibly reduce opacity of the group.
I recently came across another way to do it in the Practical Photography magazine. They say duplicate the background layer a couple times but since I'd already done a lot of editing with quite a few layers, I created a new merged up layer at the top of the layer stack, then duplicated it. One of those layers is set to Multiply and blurred. The other is set to Screen and left as is. They are grouped and a curves adjustment layer is added to the group. The line is pulled up and left to lighten the group.
I ended up using both those ways of creating an Orton effect, and sliding opacity of each a bit for this.
Happy Sliding!
A bit tight in frame but shot at 840mm with a really narrow depth of field. Try it full size ....press 'L'
Thanks for looking.
Bit of a storm/rain clouds blowing in, this is a three shot HDR image of the famous lone tree at Malham.
We arrived a little bit late, & the sky was quite dull, but it was still a joy to behold this iconic Scottish sea loch castle.
Castle Stalker – in the Gaelic, Stalcaire, meaning Hunter or Falconer – is believed originally to have been the site of a Fortalice (a small fortified building) belonging to the MacDougalls when they were Lords of Lorn, and built around 1320. The MacDougalls lost their title after their defeat by King Bruce at Brander Pass in 1308 but regained it for a period after 1328. In about 1388 the Lordship of Lorn passed to the Stewarts, the lands including Castle Stalker.
Regular visitor to this delightful location at this time of the year and often wonder how many of the students actually take time to notice this amazing setting. The security guard that Bruce and I spoke to didnt have a clue suggesting it was a wattle tree....duh.
Nikon 14-24
A bit of a story here. Sometimes I go to the pond before sunrise to look for otters and mink. The tally for the winter so far is one otter sighting, one mink sighting, and zero photos to show for it. In past years when the mammals don't show, there have almost always been ducks to enjoy once the light gets good. Not so this year when the pond has sadly been duckless most of the time. That is until this lovely Goldeneye hen showed up. I was hoping she would stick around for the good light and she did. This is actually my first ever photo of a female persuasion Common Goldeneye. Siskiyou County, California
A bit of luck the otter surfaced and looked right down the lens before its next dive. Taken at Figgate Pond Edinburgh
Backyard bits. This is just for fun: I had the hardest time getting my camera to see this and not all the surrounding leaves because it was just a dot of a thing, much smaller than a house fly. I had to use manual focus, but without my reading glasses my eyes weren't much better than the camera's. So yeah, not the best shot, but it was fun watching this green eyed speck watching me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A sheeps bit scabious holding its own momentarily in a swirling sea of dandelion ,clover and wild grasses
One of the lowest tides this year revealed a lot of the bits that had fallen off the West Pier, which are usually under the water.
Bit of a Marmite shot I would think.
the bokeh has not been added in post - shot though a dew covered branch in the foreground.,
I know that I am a bit late to the party, but here is my take of the close encounter of Mars with the Pleiades open cluster.
I would have loved to shoot this as a deepscape from a dark sky location with some nice landscape in the foreground, but first I was clouded out and when it finally cleared, I had to fly the other day and was only able to shoot from my light polluted backyard.
Sometimes, you have to take what you can, even if it means to shoot a reflection nebula under a bortle 5 sky. Hope I will have better conditions in 17 years, when this encounter will happen again.
EXIF
Canon EOS 7D mkii
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8
Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Controlled with ASIair
120 x 30s + 60 x 15s @ ISO800 @ 200mm f/2.8
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